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...four years Hugo Stinnes made $100,000,000, employed 700,000 workmen, sat on 60 boards of directors, had an interest in 1,533 companies, became Europe's biggest financier by 1921. He died in 1924. A year later his sons were bankrupt, his empire scattered, his family embittered...
Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...
...Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
...Passed the Chandler Bankruptcy Bill amending the Federal Bankruptcy Law. notably to allow: 1) bankrupt individuals as well as corporations to have their debts adjusted downward in a Federal court, 2) SEC to intervene in corporate reorganizations; sent it to the President...
...blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles behind them), that the company had gone bankrupt. They were all jailed for piracy...